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Presents a scholarly collection of essays outlining WB Yeats' reception and influence in Europe. Profiling literary and political figures as well as philosophers, historians and scientists, this series throws light on the specific strands of intellectual and cultural history, and also on the processes involved in the dissemination of ideas.

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Leading international scholars, critics and translators explore Pater's reception and afterlives throughout Europe. Includes a historical timeline and comprehensive bibliography.

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Uncovering the unexplored archive in the history of poetics, the author shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity.

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Explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.

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The nineteenth-century French novel has been seen as the production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. This book argues that to understand how literary codes respond to material factors, it is imperative to see how such factors take shape within the literary field and the society.

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Presents a reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. This work argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of the earliest assaults on the death penalty and were instrumental in bringing about penal-law reforms.

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Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. This book explores how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865.

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Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology. He finds symbol to be an essentially religious reality for Coleridge, one that partakes of the nature of a sacrament, especially sacrament as an encounter betwee

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This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788-1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.

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Through the analysis of a wide range of sources, which include aquarium manuals, articles and fictional works, The Victorian aquarium investigates the nineteenth-century vogue for home tanks; the book retraces the development and decline of the aquarium mania, exploring both its historical specificity and its far-ranging cultural resonance.

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Offers an introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. This textbook provides a one-stop resource for literature students, presenting the information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres. It includes case studies for reading literary and critical texts.

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Offers an introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. This textbook provides a one-stop resource for literature students, presenting the information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres. It includes case studies for reading literary and critical texts.

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An indispensable resource for readers investigating Victorian literature and culture, this book offers a comprehensive summary of the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts of Victorian England.

The Victorian era was a time of great social, scientific, and cultural change.

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A work which discusses Storm's significance and artistic stature as a champion of democratic humanitarian traditions and aspirations in 19th century Germany. It highlights his critique of Christianity, his vision of capitalism and his analysis of class relationships.

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Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his published writings, journal, correspondence, library char

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Through the Pale Door is a bibliographical guide to the primary sources and central texts of American Gothic literature.

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A guide to Tolstoy's literary and philosophical writings, focusing on aspects of his work that students find most difficult. It offers students an introduction to Tolstoy's literary works from his major novels to the shorter novels and texts, including "Hadji Murat" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich".